Oh amazon please get your naming right. Why does every service have to be named so utterly confusing? I was expected some kind of cloud NLP library. Would have been cool. Out of curiosity, does anyone have a real life example where they send petabytes over the wire? You know, outside the adult industry.
Lots of scientific experiments can easily generate huge data sets of raw measurements that need to be moved from the locations of measuring instruments back to the lab.